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ARTArticleBroken Heart Advice: Coping Tips When You Just Can't Let GoBreaking up or getting a divorce might have been your idea. It could be that you, your partner or both of you were caught in destructive behaviors that could only be stopped by ending your relationship.
Maybe there was abuse of some kind involved. Or perhaps the troubles in your relationship were less overtly damaging, but they seemed unresolvable and the dynamics were making you both miserable and unhappy.
As much as you know, deep down, that ending your relationship and moving on with your life was the “best” decision, your heart might feel broken.ARTArticleBroken Heart and Infidelity Advice: “I didn't realize that I was the 'other woman'”A breakup can be excruciating to go through. The end of your relationship can evoke feelings of loss, grief, sadness and anger.
In these moments of pain, it might seem that you will never be as happy again. You may wonder if you'll ever have another love like this.
Patti feels this way. Since her breakup with John, she's been unable to sleep well, she cries easily and often and she can't remember the last time that she laughed.
She misses John even though she understands why they had to end their relationship.ARTArticleBut My Parents Divorced...Will I?3 Must Do's If You Want To Break The Cycle
If you're the adult child of a divorce or simply trying to improve your marriage, here are three tips to help you cultivate a good relationship with your partner.
1. Weekly State of the Union discussion.ARTArticleCan You Really Find Love The 2nd Time Around?If You're Searching And Can't Find Love, Try This
Probably the most prevalent questio
I'm asked in my counseling practice is “Where is love?” Clients want to know why they can't find a successful life partnership, why a friend or family member won't respond as they would like, even why they don't love themselves.ARTArticleCaring Citizens Deserve CreditI read with great interest the article "Despair is up — so why isn't crime?" (Dec.ARTArticleCaring For Parents = Divorce?7 Tips To Keep Your Marriage On Track When Helping Family Members
If your parents are elderly and becoming infirm, or if there are others who require special care in your family, due to disability or illness the situation you will need to figure out how to maintain a balance between your marital life and this often taxing situation. If you have a large family, the burden of care is often lightened by sharing the responsibilities, but if you are an only child, the problem may be more difficult to resolve.ARTArticleChange your thoughts, let go of painful experiences to change your life“THE HUNGER FOR LOVE IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE THATN THE HUNGER FOR BREAD’ - Mother Theresa.
We all want to be loved and someone to love. We want to connect with people or groups that make us feel wanted, adding meaning to our existence helping us feel a sense of significance. Ultimately at the end of our days the only things that matter are:- ‘that we truly lived, we loved, and lived as though our lives mattered.”
Yet most people go through their days and spend many years feeling unloved, unwanted and unseen.
UNLOVING PAST EXPERIENCES AFFECTS OUR TODAYARTArticleComforting the Little Orphan GirlWhen life hands me a very difficult time, and I feel defeated and overwhelmed, I enter a hopeless and helpless state of mind I think of as The Little Orphan girl. This is the way I felt, as a teen, when I lost nearly my whole family, father, aunts and uncles, between the ages of 12 and 18. Needless to say, I was devastated; and I also survived and eventually, thrived. But little orphan girl doesn't remember that I made it through she sinks into despair.ARTArticleCommon Problems with Online DatingFinding that special someone is something that most people dream about. Unfortunately doing that is not as easy as it sounds. Everyone has advice for you as to how you should go about finding that potential soul mate. However, no method is fool proof. In fact, due to dating desperation many people have turned to online dating as a relationship resource.
The truth is that when online dating first came about there was quite a bit of stigma surrounding it.ARTArticleCoping with CriticsNo one likes to be criticized, fairly or not. It's always difficult to deal with, and it can hurt. Because I'm a writer of books and columns, and because I've lectured, appeared on radio and TV, I am sometimes recognized in public. I'm glad I'm not more recognizable, for along with the lovely feedback, gratitude and complements I get from many people, others feel compelled to criticize, often in a mean way, and often without having even read whatever book or column they're criticizing.ARTArticleCould He/She Be A Control Freak?3 ways to Stay Sane and Stay Married
Is your spouse a control freak? It is driving you to distraction? Here are three tips to keep your relationship on track, keep you sane and stop you from going to divorce court.
1. Control freaks can be very successful.
If yours is, give credit where credit is due. Don’t worry about your spouse’s controlling tendencies. Just don’t be controlled by them. If your spouse can have a sense of humor about it, then your marriage will be fine. If the control escalates into abuse, you need to get to counseling, fast.ARTArticleCreating Connections: Draw Them InMany years ago, an Edwin Markham poem inspired me, and I've tried to live by it
Outwitted
by Edwin Markham
He drew a circle that shut me out
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!ARTArticleCreating Family AcceptanceLately, I've gotten so many anguished questions from people who are being criticized and rejected by family for making relationship choices the families don't like, usually for cultural or religious reasons, that I changed my mind about what I was going to write this month.ARTArticleCreating Holiday MagicRecently, as we were eating in an Italian restaurant, the music being played transported me back to holidays with my Italian/American family. Traditional, sentimental Italian songs were such a large part of our gatherings for the holidays. After a huge, slow, multi-course dinner, Uncle Tommy would get up and go to the piano, and just start playing.ARTArticleCreating Holiday MagicRecently, as we were eating in an Italian restaurant, the music being played transported me back to holidays with my Italian/American family. Traditional, sentimental Italian songs were such a large part of our gatherings for the holidays. After a huge, slow, multi-course dinner, Uncle Tommy would get up and go to the piano, and just start playing.ARTArticleDear D. Romance: I've learned my lessonClick here for video
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I saw your video "Don't Call Your Ex" Great video post, good advice.ARTArticleDear Dr Romance: he said I was expecting too much from this relationshipDear Dr.Romance:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Although I had to let go, I still care a lot.Dear Dr. Romance
Your articles are very helpful to me. Can you tell me what book of yours can help me heal from my last relatioship. The pain is still there and although I am sure I had to let go, I still care a lot.
Dear Reader:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Am I Strange?Dear Dr. Romance:
I am a university student majoring in English Translation in a Mid Eastern country. I find it difficult to attract other people's attention and it makes friendship nearly impossible. I love loneliness in a way that most of my friends don't approve. I feel happy sometimes but suddenly I do not like to be with anybody, even my close friends or loved ones. I just want to be alone.ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Am I wrong for asking for more time for us?Dear Dr. Romance,ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Are there dating guidelines for single parents?Dear Dr. Romance:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: At first I was hurt, but now I'm irritated.Dear Dr. Romance:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: at funerals, how do you comfort families in mou
ing?Dear Dr. Romance:
What suggestions can you offer for guests at funerals in regards to comforting families in morning? Thanks!
Dear Reader:
Your presence at the memorial or funeral, honoring their loved one who passed, is the most comfort, so go if you can.ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Can I have a life partner?Dear Dr. Romance:
I am living alone. I've been told I am sexually week. Can I have a life partner? How long will it take? I need care and protection, and to know what my choices are. How can I be fruitful to society and mankind? Is my life worth anything? Tell me the truth. Believe me I can keep my cool. I am mentally stable and happy.
Dear Reader:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Can you make your wife fall in love again?Dear Dr. Romance:
I would like to know if it's possible to make your wike fall in love with you again? She just recently announced to me that she wanted to go our seperate ways. I am devestaded we have 2 kids together and she told me that she just grew appart from me. I'm madly in love with her and don't want to get seperated. What can i do?
Dear Reader,ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Can you program the subconscious?Dear Dr. Romance:
I saw the articles on your site and I would like to know if you can ´´program´´ the subconscious mind to win a X salary per month, even if the subconscious mind is programmed to attract money.
Dear Reader:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: Every time I think about him it just hurtsDear Dr. Romance:
I'm hoping you can offer some advice. I recently fell in love with a guy going through a divorce. We weren't together for ages but I feel like it was. He was separated About 10 months when we started dating and he had confessed to having a crush on me for a really long time.ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: He always calls, and we do the same thing over again.Dear Dr. Romance:
I've been with this man over thirty years back and forth. Something always seems to happen and we end up apart again. He endsup getting married and yet though living states apart he always ends up calling and we do the same thing all over again.ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: he can't forgive me because I did it first.Dear Dr. Romance:ARTArticleDear Dr. Romance: He isn't shy about holding hands with a black girlDear Dr. Romance:
I started dating a man 2 years younger than me, who is from another country. I thought he was very sweet and gentlemanly and of course I'm really attracted to him, and he eventually asked me on a date. We've had several dates, and he's very considerate, very discreet at work, pays for everything, drives me, walks me to my door, opens doors for me. He isn't shy about holding hands in public with a black girl.